Tracy L. Hilmer is an Assistant Director in the Fraud Section of the United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch, in Washington, D.C. She joined the Section as a trial attorney in 1999 after a number of years in private practice and has investigated, litigated, and settled a broad range of False Claims Act cases. She was promoted to Senior Trial Counsel in 2007 and became an Assistant Director in 2010. Ms. Hilmer is a 1989 graduate of the Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.